Sharp freak that I am, this is possibly too extreme for most, and is intended for printing or viewing the whole frame, not at the pixel level. It goes without saying that more could be done with a full sized image. . . but here's my take. . .

Cropped to vertical, resized to 2000 pixels on the long side using PSPX2 bicubic, lightened and contrast bumped, then slightly desaturated in ColorWasher2 plugin to make the colors less neon-like. I used a number of light application passes of Focus Magic plugin and PSP High Pass Sharpening on the bird only, then used the softening brush to tone down areas that were over the top. I also softened a number of the edges to lessen what looked like flash shadows. I played with the Hue brush to change the color of the upper branch, then removed the bolt head and desaturated the bright background leaves so they don't compete with the bird. Last, I resized back down to 800 on the long side, then touched up some details.

OMG, scott, there is no pef. i was looking at this and it's actually a shot from my fuji s7000.. guess that's ok as this thread is about PPing and not the camera. i do have a 4.5meg shot of it if you want me to post it..

I had a go with it. I made the darks lighter and added luminance to green and blue, straightened the vertical line (the pole), cropped closer. Exported to CS2, copied the layer, sharpened the top layer, blurred the bottom layer and also adjusted levels to make it darker, then added a layer mask to the top layer and blocked out the background, leaving just the bird and branches sharp. Dodged the lighter parts of the pole so it would fade into the background. Not sure it's all that much better than the original - it's a lovely shot to begin with.